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Sept 5 
We may finally have a way to predict large earthquakes, but we'll have to build some infrastructure to implement it.

The Precursory Phase of Large Earthquakes

Sept 19
You may have heard about mRNA vaccines from the recent COVID pandemic. Researches have used this same technology to build a vaccine that has the potential to protect against all the flu virus lineages. Could this be a "universal flu vaccine?"

A multivalent nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccine against all known influenza virus subtypes

Oct 3

We cannot obtain energy from the food we eat. That's done for us by mitochondria, organelles in most of our cells, organelles that used to be free-living organisms. But what were they before they started paying us energy rent? The answer could have implications for a variety of neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, as well as autoimmune disorders like Sjogren's and lupus. An ancestry-tracing technique called phylogenetics has proven surprisingly unhelpful in this case, but other methods are pointing to an answer.

Oct 17
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Nov 14
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Nov 28
A combined evening with One Book One College, held in the Henderson H building Library, discussing the book:

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake 

Dec 12
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